Aravindan D.I. Film: ‘Goa’; Cast: Vaibhav, Jai, Premji Amaren, Pia, Sneha and others; Direction: Venkatprabhu: Music Director: Yuvan Shankar Raja: Ratings: ** Venkatprabhu has established himself as filmmaker who can make meaningful films without any big stars. His ‘Chennai 6000028′ featured a host of newcomers and was a runaway hit.
Agencies Bangalore, Jan 31 – Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari Sunday blamed the ‘wrong economic policies’ of the UPA government for the skyrocketing prices and double-digit food inflation. ‘Economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says GDP to grow double-digit soon but food inflation is growing at high double-digit (17 percent to 20 percent),’ Gadkari told reporters here. He demanded that essential commodities be immediately taken out of commodities exchange.
Agencies New Delhi, Jan 31 – Samajwadi Party Lok Sabha MP Jaya Prada Sunday lashed out at detractors of former party strongman Amar Singh, saying they will be responsible if ‘anything happened to him’. ‘If anything happens to him (Amar Singh), those who have targeted him in the party will be responsible,’ Jaya Prada told mediapersons here, coming out publicly in support of a friend who the Samajwadi Party has now come to view as a liability. Jaya Prada, Lok Sabha MP from Rampur and a close associate of Amar Singh, however hastened to say she was not quitting the Samajwadi Party.
Agencies Shimla, Jan 31 – Britain has asked Himachal Pradesh police to provide more details about the theft of its highest civil decoration medal George Cross awarded posthumously to Naik Kirpa Ram. With this, octogenarian Brahmi Devi has come a step closer to get back her husband’s posthumously-awarded bravery medal, stolen from her house seven years ago. Naik Kirpa Ram of the 8th Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army, was awarded the George Cross medal posthumously in 1946.
Agencies Melbourne, Jan 31 – India’s Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe overwhelmed Ekaterina Makarova of Russia and Czech Jaroslav Levinsky 7-5, 6-3 to clinch the Australian Open mixed doubles title at the Melbourne Park here Sunday. It was top seeded Paes and Black’s second title together as they broke free of their back-to-back losses in the Wimbledon and the US Open last year. The pair had won the 2008 US Open in their first major as a team.
Agencies New Delhi, Jan 31 – Chief Justice of India (CJI) K.G. Balakrishnan Sunday said there was an urgent need to ban websites that circulate pornography and hate speeches and emphasized the need for cyber law enforcement. ‘The government can place bans on websites that exclusively circulate pornography and hate speeches.
Ritu Sharma New Delhi, Jan 31 – The Indian Navy will induct on Feb 19 the first four Russian-made Mig-29K combat jets for deployment on the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov. ‘The aircraft will be formally inducted Feb 19,’ a senior Indian Navy official told IANS. The fighters are operating offshore Goa in the absence of aircraft carrier Gorshkov, which is to be commissioned as INS Vikramaditya.
Agencies New Delhi, Jan 31 – Post the recession, India is witnessing a preference for low-cost air travel, increase in business-driven tourism and a rise in the number of moderate-tier hotels for long-haul travellers. Over the next two decades the focus will be on low cost air travel both in the domestic and foreign circuits, said speakers at a seminar at the SATTE-ITB 2010 travel fair in the capital. ‘The focus of Air India is on low-cost carriers as we had been badly affected by changes in the money market in 2007, which had pushed up our cost of operations and an ageing fleet.
London, Jan 31 – Member of the British royal family, including Prince Harry, are using black taxis to travel to unofficial engagements instead of expensive fleet cars as the Queen is on a cost-cutting spree. Minor royals Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto regularly book Dial-a-Cab taxis. Now financial advisers have devised plans for more senior royals to use the cabs wherever possible, including Prince Harry and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, reports dailymail.co.uk.
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